Digital Reason: A Guide to Meaning, Medium and Community in a Modern World by Jan Baetens


Digital Reason: A Guide to Meaning, Medium and Community in a Modern World
Title : Digital Reason: A Guide to Meaning, Medium and Community in a Modern World
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ISBN : 9462702063
ISBN-10 : 9789462702066
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 272
Publication : Published April 15, 2020

Introductory and user-friendly textbook for scholars and students in the humanities

Multidisciplinary approach to digital culture

Cross-fertilization of three major perspectives: history of ideas, art, identity and memory studies

Includes a wide selection of examples and case studies with many suggestions for advanced study and reading

The digital revolution has changed our ways of thinking, working, writing, and living together. In this book the authors critically analyse the ways in which these new technologies have reshaped our world in numerous respects, ranging from politics, ideology, and philosophy over art and communication to memory and identity. The book challenges the customary view of a divide between analog and digital culture, claiming instead that human endeavour has always been characterized by certain forms and aspects of digital thinking, building, and communicating, and that essential parts of analog culture are still being reshaped by new digital technologies. It offers a multidisciplinary approach to digital reason, reflecting the diversity of humanities scholarship and its fundamental contribution to the ongoing changes in our current and future thinking and doing.


Digital Reason: A Guide to Meaning, Medium and Community in a Modern World Reviews


  • Koen Crolla

    Pseudo-intellectual and almost entirely without substance. De Graef and Baetens are utterly out of their depth with the subject matter, and while Mandolessi has a good go at it, she ultimately just doesn't have much to say that's really worth saying.
    The fact that this apparently saw so many eyeballs on its way to becoming a (compulsory!) university course and still ended up like this is nothing short of embarrassing for the KU Leuven.